The 39 steps
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Intelligence service; Richard Hannay (Fictitious character); English Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Description: Buchan introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an "ordinary fellow", is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his intelligent and pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall and, finally, at the site of the mysterious thirty-nine steps.